The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928. N.Z. FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10889, 17 July 1928, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1928. N.Z. FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Efforts are being made by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board to establish a market in the United States where some scarcity appears to exist. Some months ago, when the United States Government prohibited imports of chilled and frozen moat, from South America, in order to prevent the entry of foot and mouth, disease, the Pastoral Review quotes Sir Hugh Denison, late Commissioner for Australia in America, ns reporting a real scarcity of prime beef and mutton in the States, owing to the population having outsrip-ip-ed production. For instance, lie read notices on the walls of restaurants requesting patrons not to order meat unless same was absolutely essential, and found the polite request backed by exorbitant charges placed against meat items on the menu. The curious propaganda has apparently been effective, for figures prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry shows that the per capita consumption of beef in 1927 was 581 b compared with 63.41 bin 1926; of veal 7.41 b, as against 8.21 b, and of mutton and lamb 5.41 b compared with 5.51 b. Thus in beef, which figures largest in the fresh flesh dietary of the American household, there was a tapering off in consumption equal to nearly 10 per cent.